Journal

To make up for my general tardiness with December's mix i've done this month's in double-quick time for Jordanobscura.It's a mix of songs all relating to one particular body part - the head, cryptically entitled...

The last days of the year... for yours sincerely, it means re-listening to all the music released during the year that I've grown to love. The music which soundtracked my life. And trying desperately to put them in the right order - never entirely possible, but as I've been doing it on a weekly basis ever since my eleventh year on Earth, I'm sort of trained. And every year I curse myself for dedicating so much time on something which is only really relevant to me. A list with an order which is purely subjective means zilch to anyone else, but hey, other people spend days on Christmas dinner preperations and hundreds of euros on fireworks. Things that seem silly in my eyes. So here goes, a couple of charts with music which will take me back to 2008 whenever I look back at them. And I hope some of you will enjoy glancing over them, and perhaps even discover some new music to form the soundtrack of your life in 2009.(Shame - although probably just for me - I could not find the time to do my annual Favourite 20 Sleeves…

I made mixes for those special sunday moods you certainly know and experienced. You’ll find fresh tracks aswell as some classic songs and personal favourites in these sets. Furthermore you’ll notice that i tried to mix many different genres.

A LIVE recording of Emotiquon's improvised live set @ King Tuts Wah Wah Hut (supporting We Smoke Fags) in Glasgow!!!

After their exciting live performance at The Altitude Festival 2008 (supporting the phenomenal Grand National), Emotiquon were invited to perform at the infamous Glasgow venue, King Tuts Wah Wah Hut.

Supporting upcoming new electro-punk act We Smoke Fags alongside synthpop pioneer iamchemist, Emotiquon knew that the pressure was on! However, without their library of new sounds and tracks (all contained within their treasured external hard-drive which they left behind in France after their last gig), the set had to be completely IMPROVISED!!!

The THEME for this performance was aptly "Close Encounters"!!!

Illustrating that Emotiquon can perform well under pressure and with virtually NO preparation at all, this podcast should entertain all fans of electronic music...

OK - these are a few weeks old cus I missed em last week and was too lazy to write them up over the weekend. My Bad. Out of this lot I have only heard of one band (Grand National) and have no idea about the other 3 except that the pictures on the sleeves were pretty. Yes, yes, frivolous purchasing maybe but I expect high things from them.OK - lets see how this works; I will review them from front covers only and then play them after...

We'll be supporting the fantastic Grand National, and Super U on the MAIN STAGE on Friday night!!!

And we'll be sliding down the beautiful alpine slopes the next day, and hopefully drinking ourselves into a stupor the very same evening!!!

If anyone wants to come too, let us know ASAP. You'll obviously have to get yourselves there, but there's discounted accommodation and free entry into the festival. And the organizers have assured us that any skiing fans will be well looked after (VIP treatment)